Karen is the most beautiful person, most soothing VOICE, and best female drummer music has ever experienced. There is nothing better than listening to the legend Karen Carpenter and Richards genius arrangements. Love your reactions to Carpenters.
This was also a request from Abba's Agnetha during a 2013 interview,because she loved Karen's voice and Richard's beautiful arrangements and praised their inspirational legacy and also spoke about some brief meeting they once had in W.Germany during promotion on a tv show.
She had an amazing voice. Did you know she called herself, "the drummer who could sing". As great as she was singing if you want to see her the happiest watch her drumming!
The more you smile, the more I smile..I love seeing you find more music that you connect to. Music speaks to the soul and to the heart. You're a joy to behold finding this music...
The day she died I was driving in my car & the noon news announced her passing. I was heart broken. She was the best singer I've ever heard. Great drummer too.
"Yesterday Once More", written by Richard Carpenter and John Bettis, is a hit song by the Carpenters from their 1973 album Now & Then. Thematically the song concerns reminiscing about songs of a generation gone by. It segues into a long medley, consisting of eight covers of 1960s tunes incorporated into a faux oldies radio program. The work takes up the entire B-side of the album.
You get an idea of their versatility if you listen to that long medley of old 1960s tunes. Lots of fun and it begins with the guitarist, Tony Peluso, from Goodbye to Love, as a DJ for an Oldies radio station. Think you'd like it as well as we listeners! Keep up the good work!
Such a great Carpenters song. Karen had so much emotion and sincerity when she sang. They're one of my favorite groups. You might also like For All We Know.
...and Leave Yesterday Behind, which is by the same writer and a similar song. You can never have too many Carpenters tunes with "Yesterday" in the title...😁
Hi Chase, I've been enjoying your reactions to the Carpenters who remain my favorite duo ever and I can hardly wait to see you react to one of Karen's most unusual songs, "Calling Occupants!" By the way, it's been a long time since you've reacted to Dimash and no one of any age has lived a full life until they have seen Dimash and Igor Krutoy, "Olimpico" (available on composer Igor Krutoy's channnel). You'll definitely know why I have said that once you have seen it! Great job you are doing!
@@michaelasay8587 He's done many. He loves Karen. Check out his reaction to "Goodbye to Love," for example. He's also learning about Abba. Very entertaining young man.
Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft is not a Carpenters song originally, it's a cover of a song by Canadian studio band Klaatu. The version by Carpenters is better known, though. Klaatu was very heavily influenced by the late-career Beatles.
@@stevetournay6103 Yes, of course. There were actually rumors at the time that Klaatu was the Beatles performing under a pseudonym. And I agree, Karen's version is better.
Great reaction and love for Karen and Carpenters as always! ❤️ I’m loving your journey. As an OG fan it does my heart good. Oh and the two “Yesterday” songs are not related. I have a heads up for you. There is a guy named Harvey Stig and that’s the name of his TH-cam channel, too. I recently learned about him. He’s been taking old Carpenters videos and restoring them and just plain saving them. I’m sure you’ve noticed over the time you’ve been playing the videos, they look their age, 50 some years old. Harvey is using modern technology to save them. I am amazed at what he’s accomplished. Most are done to 1080p, some to 4K. Some a little less. But all of them look better by a lot than what he started out with. In most cases the old one and his new enhanced on are on TH-cam together. You can run one than the other and see the magic he has done. I’m going to link an example of his work because it’s not on his channel. It’s from The Tonight Show in 1973. I’ve seen the original and it was plain awful. The sound was OK but the video was bouncy, noisy visually and poor distorted colors. Well, it now looks like it was on TV last night. It’s amazing how beautiful it is. It’s a 19 minute clip. I don’t know if that’s too long for a reaction or if it fits what you are doing. It starts with Carpenters doing a medley of their hits. Then the talk with host Johnny Carson then they perform Mr. Guder. On the last song Karen sings and drums simultaneously. Maybe you can just roll the clip to the Mr. Guder song and just do that reaction with beautiful video? It’s stored in the Johnny Carson channel. Here’s the link, some how you have to watch this. It is amazing and you’ve never seen Karen look this beautiful, not in a still photo. Enjoy, Joe th-cam.com/video/uA0A7O9xTgU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=EhKpRhoGDE4aDhFp
You know I've never had that idea: KC listening to youngsters listening to, and being sincerely wowed by, her. The sheer volume of such reaction would surely convince her she really was that good...something she never quite seems to have accepted.
This is from their vinyl album "Now and Then". Side 1 is "Now", with new songs, and side 2 is "Then", featuring a medley of 1960s songs linked in the style of 1960s radio show. This track introduced the medley. As many comments below have suggested - you MUST do "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft".
Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss were musical geniuses at A&M Records. Their secret was pointing out a musicians strengths and allowing free creativity to shine
True to the songs title "Yesterday Once More".... it's the Carpenters music that fits that bill now. A Big THANK YOU for continuing to showcase and compliment one of the best vocalists of all time. Pure and effortless delivered which such heart as only Karen can do. This song was the lead in on the B side of their "Now & Then" album which showcased a number of songs from the 50's & 60's in a six or seven song medley. It's pure fun and Karen of course blends it all beautifully. BUT if there's a medley TO REACT TO it's from Carpenters MUSIC, MUSIC, MUSIC Medley from their 1980 TV Special - Includes the songs "Sing' "Knowing When to Leave' "Make it Easy on Yourself' 'Someday' & 'We've Only Just Begun' - This has been remastered, this is 9 minutes and 27 seconds of Carpenter BLISS! Call it silky smooth, a gem, pure crystal clear, spine tingling, perfection and we have it on youtube forever to experience. This was recorded 3 years prior to her death and is the Mona Lisa piece of music. This is the best Karen looked and sounded, in her element, you can see the joy in her face and hear it in her voice. Her vocal pitch at about 5:30 in between the end on 'Make it Easy on yourself' and blending into 'Someday' the lyric 'to do' is PERFECTION! If one could bottle that note and save it for all of time . . .nothing compares to that moment.
Carpenters made the soundtrack of my story with my wife, when we were just two teens discovering the world! She’s gone now, but the memories are still alive in me. ♥️🌟
The follow up on the same album has a set of songs right after this like an 60's radio show with a DJ. Very clever and it matches the feeling of this song it is definitely a great thing to listen to right after this song.
As many Carpenters songs as you have reviewed, I thought you had already done this. Goes to show you how much music they made. Reminiscing about old songs bringing back memories. Just like this did for me.
In the early 1970s there was a major vogue for jukebox era music of a decade earlier, referred to as "oldies". This song is a Carpenter/Bettis original from 1973, and the lyric is a commentary on that nostalgic fashion. Funny that the early 60s stuff was "oldies" ten years later, but here's Chase finding this Carpenters song timeless 51 years after its release... Chase, you heard "Now" yet? April 1982, the last thing KC recorded prior to her passing...EDIT, yes you have! You like Carpenters, and also ABBA; I'm a big fan of both. And you're picking album cuts as well as hits. Good on ya. Subbing...
Oh there's correlation alright ...she was very sad and depressed all her life. Had a bad Mother who told her not to eat too many cookies! Her Mother was at fault of her death. She shouldn't have died!!
Hi Chase. This is a great Carpenters song. Great reaction from you too as always. "For All We Know" and "I Need to be in Love" are two more great Carpenters songs.
Linda Ronstadt is another female singer from the same time as Karen, who is in the same tier as her with a phenomenal voice, and you absolutely should listen to some of her songs, and I think she’ll be another absolute favorite of yours. Look her up on Wikipedia. Linda had a powerful and highly versatile voice and sang tons of styles during her career including rock, pop, country, folk, punk/new wave, old standards, light opera, and even Latin/Mariachi! Linda and Karen are frequently named together as the two best female voices of the past 50 -60 years. I recommend you check out the 2019’documentary about Linda Ronstadt called “The Sound of My Voice” . it is excellent, and you’ll learn such great things about her. She is one of the absolute GOATs
There are different versions of this song. Original version: Wurlitzer electric piano introduction instead of grand piano, the end of verse one is the original vocal, and the choruses include a tambourine Single version: extra keyboard and orchestration parts added, piano riffs replaced with guitar riffs, and the end of verse one includes the same vocal heard in later mixes but without digital reverb 1985 remix: grand piano introduction, reverb added to lead vocal; electric piano enters with drums and orchestration, violins mixed to the right, heavier drums and bass, tambourine deleted from choruses 1991 remix: more reverb, violins mixed to the left, digital electric piano softer in mix
a lot of the thing you like were actually done by Richard. He wrote the words and music and the arragement for the background instrumentalits and singers.
Only on 'Goodbye To Love' with its great long vocal runs do you ever catch something like an intake of breath. As one vocal coach reactor said, Karen is always 'on top of her air'. Do a Carpenters karaoke at your peril.
Might I suggest another great female singer I think you will love - Olivia Newton-John? I recommend "The Air that i Breathe" for starters. ABBA and Andy Gibb were guests on her TV show and there is a great (and funny) jamming session with them.
Just like Top of the World that has the original incredible version that I love and then and then over countrified funkied up version that I cringe at. Not crazy about the live versions of that one either.
That, what you have, is the edited version that Richard Carpenter screwed up. This is the original 1973 track, the differences are subtle but enough. I don't like the tracks where Richard tried to "update" them with extra guitar or synthensizers. I love the originals best. th-cam.com/video/P-juWpe5STk/w-d-xo.html
Dude when you hit play stop flapping your lips, you miss the beginning of a lot of songs that start like this one. 😄 Love ya though, your reactions are great. If you have to say something, pause it and jump back 5 seconds so you're not talking over the song. If you start pausing it every time you'll really realize how much you're talking. You miss musical parts and lyrics and lose the flow if you're yakking every 10 seconds. 😉
❤❤❤❤❤ there's Karen Carpenter and everyone else rip Karen Carpenter
Karen is the most beautiful person, most soothing VOICE, and best female drummer music has ever experienced. There is nothing better than listening to the legend Karen Carpenter and Richards
genius arrangements. Love your reactions to Carpenters.
Bone, saw her in 74....you? Lol ...
This was also a request from Abba's Agnetha during a 2013 interview,because she loved Karen's voice and Richard's beautiful arrangements and praised their inspirational legacy and also spoke about some brief meeting they once had in W.Germany during promotion on a tv show.
...and Joe's bass along with Karen's drums, held it together so beautifully and, more importantly, so tastefully!! MM
She had an amazing voice. Did you know she called herself, "the drummer who could sing". As great as she was singing if you want to see her the happiest watch her drumming!
The more you smile, the more I smile..I love seeing you find more music that you connect to. Music speaks to the soul and to the heart. You're a joy to behold finding this music...
THANK YOU !
The day she died I was driving in my car & the noon news announced her passing. I was heart broken. She was the best singer I've ever heard. Great drummer too.
"Yesterday Once More", written by Richard Carpenter and John Bettis, is a hit song by the Carpenters from their 1973 album Now & Then. Thematically the song concerns reminiscing about songs of a generation gone by. It segues into a long medley, consisting of eight covers of 1960s tunes incorporated into a faux oldies radio program. The work takes up the entire B-side of the album.
You get an idea of their versatility if you listen to that long medley of old 1960s tunes. Lots of fun and it begins with the guitarist, Tony Peluso, from Goodbye to Love, as a DJ for an Oldies radio station. Think you'd like it as well as we listeners! Keep up the good work!
Such a great Carpenters song. Karen had so much emotion and sincerity when she sang. They're one of my favorite groups. You might also like For All We Know.
WILL CHECK IT OUT !
I absolutely LOVE "For All We Know." One of the great ballads of all time.
...and Leave Yesterday Behind, which is by the same writer and a similar song. You can never have too many Carpenters tunes with "Yesterday" in the title...😁
You will never hear a finer voice.
Yes Chase, we all get tears in our eyes listening to Karen just like you.
Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft the best of all Carpenters gem. You will like this im sure. Great reaction. 😍
Added!
No sooner had I suggested "Calling Occupants" then I read you comment!
This one is super nice too.👍
A hidden jem
Hi Chase, I've been enjoying your reactions to the Carpenters who remain my favorite duo ever and I can hardly wait to see you react to one of Karen's most unusual songs, "Calling Occupants!" By the way, it's been a long time since you've reacted to Dimash and no one of any age has lived a full life until they have seen Dimash and Igor Krutoy, "Olimpico" (available on composer Igor Krutoy's channnel). You'll definitely know why I have said that once you have seen it! Great job you are doing!
He's done other songs by her? This is my first time seeing him!!
@@michaelasay8587 He's done many. He loves Karen. Check out his reaction to "Goodbye to Love," for example. He's also learning about Abba. Very entertaining young man.
Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft is not a Carpenters song originally, it's a cover of a song by Canadian studio band Klaatu. The version by Carpenters is better known, though. Klaatu was very heavily influenced by the late-career Beatles.
@@stevetournay6103 Yes, of course. There were actually rumors at the time that Klaatu was the Beatles performing under a pseudonym. And I agree, Karen's version is better.
If you ever react to “Calling Occupants…” please do the full version and not the edited single version 🙏🏽
Great reaction and love for Karen and Carpenters as always! ❤️ I’m loving your journey. As an OG fan it does my heart good. Oh and the two “Yesterday” songs are not related. I have a heads up for you. There is a guy named Harvey Stig and that’s the name of his TH-cam channel, too. I recently learned about him. He’s been taking old Carpenters videos and restoring them and just plain saving them. I’m sure you’ve noticed over the time you’ve been playing the videos, they look their age, 50 some years old. Harvey is using modern technology to save them. I am amazed at what he’s accomplished. Most are done to 1080p, some to 4K. Some a little less. But all of them look better by a lot than what he started out with. In most cases the old one and his new enhanced on are on TH-cam together. You can run one than the other and see the magic he has done.
I’m going to link an example of his work because it’s not on his channel. It’s from The Tonight Show in 1973. I’ve seen the original and it was plain awful. The sound was OK but the video was bouncy, noisy visually and poor distorted colors. Well, it now looks like it was on TV last night. It’s amazing how beautiful it is. It’s a 19 minute clip. I don’t know if that’s too long for a reaction or if it fits what you are doing. It starts with Carpenters doing a medley of their hits. Then the talk with host Johnny Carson then they perform Mr. Guder. On the last song Karen sings and drums simultaneously. Maybe you can just roll the clip to the Mr. Guder song and just do that reaction with beautiful video? It’s stored in the Johnny Carson channel. Here’s the link, some how you have to watch this. It is amazing and you’ve never seen Karen look this beautiful, not in a still photo.
Enjoy,
Joe
th-cam.com/video/uA0A7O9xTgU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=EhKpRhoGDE4aDhFp
Thanks, Chase! 🔙
Karen Carpenter would find such joy in watching your reactions to her music. It's something she couldn't have even conceived. Great job, cute man. 👍👍
thank you ❤️
You know I've never had that idea: KC listening to youngsters listening to, and being sincerely wowed by, her. The sheer volume of such reaction would surely convince her she really was that good...something she never quite seems to have accepted.
This is from their vinyl album "Now and Then". Side 1 is "Now", with new songs, and side 2 is "Then", featuring a medley of 1960s songs linked in the style of 1960s radio show. This track introduced the medley. As many comments below have suggested - you MUST do "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft".
Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss were musical geniuses at A&M Records. Their secret was pointing out a musicians strengths and allowing free creativity to shine
Music from heaven😊
She has a beautiful voice and she is too
True to the songs title "Yesterday Once More".... it's the Carpenters music that fits that bill now. A Big THANK YOU for continuing to showcase and compliment one of the best vocalists of all time. Pure and effortless delivered which such heart as only Karen can do. This song was the lead in on the B side of their "Now & Then" album which showcased a number of songs from the 50's & 60's in a six or seven song medley. It's pure fun and Karen of course blends it all beautifully. BUT if there's a medley TO REACT TO it's from Carpenters MUSIC, MUSIC, MUSIC Medley from their 1980 TV Special - Includes the songs "Sing' "Knowing When to Leave' "Make it Easy on Yourself' 'Someday' & 'We've Only Just Begun' - This has been remastered, this is 9 minutes and 27 seconds of Carpenter BLISS! Call it silky smooth, a gem, pure crystal clear, spine tingling, perfection and we have it on youtube forever to experience. This was recorded 3 years prior to her death and is the Mona Lisa piece of music. This is the best Karen looked and sounded, in her element, you can see the joy in her face and hear it in her voice. Her vocal pitch at about 5:30 in between the end on 'Make it Easy on yourself' and blending into 'Someday' the lyric 'to do' is PERFECTION! If one could bottle that note and save it for all of time . . .nothing compares to that moment.
Carpenters made the soundtrack of my story with my wife, when we were just two teens discovering the world! She’s gone now, but the memories are still alive in me.
♥️🌟
Road Ode and Baby It’s You are two really nice ones as well!
The follow up on the same album has a set of songs right after this like an 60's radio show with a DJ. Very clever and it matches the feeling of this song it is definitely a great thing to listen to right after this song.
YEAH YOU COULD REALLY NEVER KNOW WHEN YOU FIRST HEAR HER SONG WHAT TYPE OF SONG IS GOING TO I'M GLAD YOU'RE ENJOYING HER❤❤
She plays drums on this track too.
Una canción muy hermosa y muy perfecta❤❤ I love KAREN
As many Carpenters songs as you have reviewed, I thought you had already done this. Goes to show you how much music they made. Reminiscing about old songs bringing back memories. Just like this did for me.
In the early 1970s there was a major vogue for jukebox era music of a decade earlier, referred to as "oldies". This song is a Carpenter/Bettis original from 1973, and the lyric is a commentary on that nostalgic fashion. Funny that the early 60s stuff was "oldies" ten years later, but here's Chase finding this Carpenters song timeless 51 years after its release...
Chase, you heard "Now" yet? April 1982, the last thing KC recorded prior to her passing...EDIT, yes you have!
You like Carpenters, and also ABBA; I'm a big fan of both. And you're picking album cuts as well as hits. Good on ya. Subbing...
Grew up with the Carpenters, they were my favorite group. There's no correlation in songs.
Oh there's correlation alright ...she was very sad and depressed all her life. Had a bad Mother who told her not to eat too many cookies! Her Mother was at fault of her death. She shouldn't have died!!
Hi Chase. This is a great Carpenters song. Great reaction from you too as always. "For All We Know" and "I Need to be in Love" are two more great Carpenters songs.
I will check it out
I’m down for any shing a ling a ling, sha la la la or shooby do lang lang she can give! Such a gorgeous voice!
Please do SING and FOR ALL WE KNOW by the Carpenters !
Linda Ronstadt is another female singer from the same time as Karen, who is in the same tier as her with a phenomenal voice, and you absolutely should listen to some of her songs, and I think she’ll be another absolute favorite of yours. Look her up on Wikipedia. Linda had a powerful and highly versatile voice and sang tons of styles during her career including rock, pop, country, folk, punk/new wave, old standards, light opera, and even Latin/Mariachi! Linda and Karen are frequently named together as the two best female voices of the past 50 -60 years. I recommend you check out the 2019’documentary about Linda Ronstadt called “The Sound of My Voice” . it is excellent, and you’ll learn such great things about her. She is one of the absolute GOATs
Its Rickard her brother who is responsible for the arrangements hes a genius
There are different versions of this song.
Original version: Wurlitzer electric piano introduction instead of grand piano, the end of verse one is the original vocal, and the choruses include a tambourine
Single version: extra keyboard and orchestration parts added, piano riffs replaced with guitar riffs, and the end of verse one includes the same vocal heard in later mixes but without digital reverb
1985 remix: grand piano introduction, reverb added to lead vocal; electric piano enters with drums and orchestration, violins mixed to the right, heavier drums and bass, tambourine deleted from choruses
1991 remix: more reverb, violins mixed to the left, digital electric piano softer in mix
a lot of the thing you like were actually done by Richard. He wrote the words and music and the arragement for the background instrumentalits and singers.
Saw her in 74!! Who else?? Please let me know and the year!! Let's talk!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉
As well as having an amazing voice, Karen could also play the drums.
Kinda like saying "Richard could play the piano", but yeah...KC was an absolutely kickass drummer.
❤❤❤
Carpenters cover
The Beatles...
She's Got a Ticket to Ride
Its just ticket to ride
Try singing along - Karen doesn't breath at the time as other people.
Only on 'Goodbye To Love' with its great long vocal runs do you ever catch something like an intake of breath. As one vocal coach reactor said, Karen is always 'on top of her air'. Do a Carpenters karaoke at your peril.
Might I suggest another great female singer I think you will love - Olivia Newton-John? I recommend "The Air that i Breathe" for starters. ABBA and Andy Gibb were guests on her TV show and there is a great (and funny) jamming session with them.
Karen and ONJ were close friends, too 😊
There are two slightly different versions of Yesterday Once More. This is not the single version.😮
Just like Top of the World that has the original incredible version that I love and then and then over countrified funkied up version that I cringe at. Not crazy about the live versions of that one either.
Check out "A Song For You "!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That, what you have, is the edited version that Richard Carpenter screwed up. This is the original 1973 track, the differences are subtle but enough. I don't like the tracks where Richard tried to "update" them with extra guitar or synthensizers. I love the originals best.
th-cam.com/video/P-juWpe5STk/w-d-xo.html
Dude, think you've missed out The Carpenters - Jambalaya (On the Bayou)? 😄
Dude, slow down, I'm old and can't listen that fast.
Dude when you hit play stop flapping your lips, you miss the beginning of a lot of songs that start like this one. 😄 Love ya though, your reactions are great. If you have to say something, pause it and jump back 5 seconds so you're not talking over the song. If you start pausing it every time you'll really realize how much you're talking. You miss musical parts and lyrics and lose the flow if you're yakking every 10 seconds. 😉
No correlation
Dude, you want to be poplular...just start doing the beautiful Karen Carpenter!! Most just do like 5 songs and quit!!
Listen to Tori Holub sing this and you will swear that it is Karen. Waited 40 years to hear that voice again from a singer!
I dedicate this song to Karen, I hope it’s yesterday once more.❤